This is an analysis of the poem In The Hopes No One Remembers that begins with:

Aging without experiencing to digest each phase of it,
To allow a processing of reality to accept instead delude......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddddXaXa bddbXbcXcXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010000011100 0010100001000010101 1101001001001 0110000010 10100010010111001 1101000110110110 011011010101010101 011010100111011 001001100101 00100010000110100 1001001101101 11011101010101010 1110111101011001 10011111010111101 010010010001110111 111111001101010 101011101010100010 100101001100010111 0011101001110 1010011001111 10101010001110011 1101010010110110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, in are repeated.

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  • summary of In The Hopes No One Remembers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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